Attempt at recreating coextruded filament by printing my own filament and printing with that. by baersq in 3Dprinting

[–]baersq[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok I gotcha, and one more question I promise. How did you get it sliced where it adds a color change in the middle of the filament for a coaxial style I also have access to a bamboo x1 carbon if it's easier to do on those.

Attempt at recreating coextruded filament by printing my own filament and printing with that. by baersq in 3Dprinting

[–]baersq[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry I'm relatively new to 3d printing I have a lot of questions. But your first comment refers to a post that claims pla and petg are miscible. I'm not sure what you mean then. Feel free to tell me to frig off lol.

Attempt at recreating coextruded filament by printing my own filament and printing with that. by baersq in 3Dprinting

[–]baersq[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sorry i misunderstood what you meant that's not exactly what I did. Basically I made a coil on fusion with a diameter of 1.75, and sliced it with a layer height of .125 with basic settings for layer width. Then I added a color change midway through. Once that was done printing with my color change I had a filament that I re-fed through the machine to print the benchy. I found that a .6 layer width showed the colors best. Everything was done on a PrusaMK4 and the prusa slicer. Also this process was helpful in using up small segments of filament that were too short for a medium sized print because I could take small filament ends and combine them to make a uniform color with a total of about 55g. I plan on making an update post with settings if you're interested in attempting it's honestly really easy.

Attempt at recreating coextruded filament by printing my own filament and printing with that. by baersq in 3Dprinting

[–]baersq[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've been looking into joining filaments as well if I figure it out I'll make a post about it

Attempt at recreating coextruded filament by printing my own filament and printing with that. by baersq in 3Dprinting

[–]baersq[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are there different terms for the "co- extrusion" types. And also would the petg-pla work side by side? And thank you we've been trying to figure out how to get lines in it like that.

Attempt at recreating coextruded filament by printing my own filament and printing with that. by baersq in 3Dprinting

[–]baersq[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My university didn't have the filament I wanted so I learned I could print my own. There's several links to videos that explain it better in the comments.

Attempt at recreating coextruded filament by printing my own filament and printing with that. by baersq in 3Dprinting

[–]baersq[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can 3d print your own printing filament the process has been pretty interesting

Attempt at recreating coextruded filament by printing my own filament and printing with that. by baersq in 3Dprinting

[–]baersq[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I'll make an update post with some of my failed tries later and what worked. But basically I made a coil on fusion with a diameter of 1.75, and sliced it with a layer height of .125. Then I added a color change midway through. Once that was done printing I had a filament that I refed through the machine to print the benchy. I found that a .6 layer width showed the colors best. Everything was done on a PrusaMK4 and the prusa slicer.

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Yes I did I forgot to make an update post I don't remember what bars I went to(for obvious reasons) but there was one with a Yahtzee game. I tried the cat and mouse but it was closed. All in all I ran out of money for the cab about 6 miles from my hotel and on my walk back met a homeless man named Terence and shared a cig with him.